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As is your vanadium research, loudspeaker, really appreciate your work.

On corruption at the Department of Mineral Resources regional offices, Mantashe said that four regional offices had been audited. “That’s Mpumalanga, Limpopo, the North West, and the Northern Cape. We are hoping to be able to audit all of them. We are have picked up a number of things.” “We picked up properties that did not exist…We are serious about uncovering that corruption. In one province a health and safety inspector was caught selling Section 54. We caught him out and you can’t sell safety. That man is no longer in the department now.” https://city-press.news24.com/Business/sa-mining-lagging-behind-in-terms-of-tech-20190213 https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/department-working-to-improve-online-application-system-for-mining-licenses-19123142 https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-02-04-communities-affected-by-mining-still-getting-a-raw-deal/

https://www.energy-storage.news/news/storage-smart-energy-touted-as-post-brexit-stability-drivers

https://capital.com/why-copper-is-the-metal-of-the-future

Is this of any interest/use to us ? https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/battery-metals-investing/vanadium-investing/national-entry-phases-filed-in-australia-and-canada-for-vanadiumcorp-electrochem-processing-technology-vept/

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-01-28-gwede-mantashe-must-show-mining-indaba-hes-willing-to-walk-the-talk/ Mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe has taken some positive steps since his appointment a year ago, such as scrapping the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) Amendment Bill and improving on his predecessor’s mining charter. He has shown strong leadership. We believe this year’s indaba presents a good opportunity for the minister to take a step back and consider where the industry is — and present a realistic picture. The minister ought to create a climate conducive to investment and growth, and then walk the talk. He cannot ignore the perception that SA is corrupt. He should acknowledge the mistakes that were made, for example with Eskom and Optimum Coal, and say what is being done to address those issues. He has already taken steps by temporarily closing the department of mineral resources’ (DMR’s) regional offices in Mpumalanga and Limpopo for investigation. He could reinforce that by making the point that the public service is there to serve the people, not itself. The industry would like to hear an update on what actions have followed the suspension of those two regional offices, and whether there will be prosecutions.

https://www.middleeastelectricity.com/en/visit/MEE-product-sectors/energy-storage-and-management-solutions/energy-storage.html

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/in-the-long-haul-vanadium-will-prove-durable/

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/021319-german-tsos-plan-mega-batteries-as-grid-boosters-to-reduce-redispatch-costs London — German power grid operators plan to trial massive batteries as grid boosters at vulnerable locations to reduce redispatch costs and defer new cable investment, network plans show.

https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/news/immersa_pens_strategic_partnership_with_vanadium_flow_machine_specialist_ce

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/02/08/battery-storage-is-almost-ready-to-play-the-flexibility-game/ “For applications with longer storage durations other battery types, including sodium sulfur and in particular flow batteries, are attracting increased interest”

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/private-equity-pours-more-money-into-coal/

The law firm also flagged that a raft of deals from earlier this decade are now coming to a point where investors look for returns, spurring activity.

“The next two years will represent a tipping point for mining private equity,” said Keepin.

“The initial five years is coming to an end and these funds will start to focus on realising investments which may itself trigger further activity in the sector generally.”
Source: Bloomberg

http://magazine.cim.org/en/operations/vanadiums-day-en/

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/trends-creating-opportunities-in-africas-energy-sector-2019-02-04

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2019/02/04/western-australia-launches-strategy-to-fuel-battery-industry/

Exactly Bob. But hey, whilst they are still leaving it in the ground it helps us out. Onwards and upwards for the Wresers.

https://theecologist.org/2019/feb/04/mining-uk-part-i

https://www.esi-africa.com/gas-to-power-strategic-for-africas-energy-future/

https://www.sharecafe.com.au/2019/02/01/key-junior-resource-themes-in-2019/ Battery Materials It goes without saying that battery materials – including lithium, vanadium, graphite and cobalt – will remain at the forefront of investors’ minds, driven by the green energy thematic. The electric vehicle (EV) revolution in particular tends to hog the headlines, but there’s another battery market that’s often overlooked – solid state batteries. In fact the value of the market is forecast to grow by a factor of 26 times between 2017 and 2025 – to $1.4 billion from $53 million in 2017. Solid state batteries use solid electrodes and solid electrolytes, instead of the liquid or polymer electrolytes found in conventional lithium-ion or lithium-polymer batteries. The technology is more difficult to engineer, but promises a battery that is of higher capacity, higher density, higher performance and faster to charge. Independent experts say the complex manufacturing process and high cost of solid-state batteries has restrained market growth, but they are increasingly becoming the chosen successor to existing lithium-ion chemistries. So much so that between 2018 and 2025, annual demand is set to grow at an impressive rate of 49%. The electric vehicle sector will be the most lucrative market for solid state batteries, growing at an annual rate of 59% per cent, with big car makers like Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai and BMW all developing solid-state batteries for electric vehicles.

https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/interviews/enel-green-power-anheuserbusch-partner-to-make-20190131 REM: You mentioned the diversification Enel has undertaken in recent years, and one aspect of that effort is to grow your activities in energy storage. Do you see energy storage as one of the hot new areas in the renewables sector? Mark McGrail: Battery storage definitely does seem to be one of the hottest areas that the market is expanding into right now. And I think it's an area that is right in line with what we were just talking about ... storage solutions help to manage the grid. What we don't want to be doing is adding a lot of resources in a specific area where they can't be used. That's where you come into the limits of the transmission grid. So being able to store the energy until it is actually needed may potentially help the reliability of the grid and that's really where the focus is ... it's not about building a wind facility or a solar facility with the expectation of pushing all the energy it produces onto the grid immediately. It's about potentially holding some back for when the energy is really needed.